Luka Modric’s Milan movement is still more slow in Serie A, there is still plenty of tape | Serie A

LUka Modric will be 40 years old in September. During a career, he played 930 matches and won seven league championships and six champions. In 2018, after he inspired Croatia’s World Cup final, he even broke Messi-Ronaldo Duopoly to demand Ballon D’Or.

These days it rarely took 90 minutes, it has not started a game during the Club World Cup, and since Long, Madrid has been saved from the anger of coming to Paris Saint-Germain with a semi-final. He could have retired five years ago and could still be one of the most respected players in the history of the game, but his eyes at the next Summer World Cup chose to join Milan, the termination of Modric’s contract in Real Madrid.

This is not just an important movement for Modric. It also confirms Serie A as the undisputed home of the senior citizen. Next season, 34 -year -old Kevin De Bruyne will be lined up for Napoli after moving from Manchester City, 37 -year -old Francesco Aherbi and 36 -year -old Henrikh Mkhitaryan is still at Inter and 37 -year -old Marten de Roon, 37 in the midfield in the midfield of Juan Cuadado. An average Serie A player is 14 months larger than the average of the first 31 leagues in Europe.

Football is an increasingly young man’s game. There is evidence that the intensity of modern pressure means that players have previously reached their peaks. In the last decade, the number of players who played more than 900 Premier League minutes has increased by 32%. At the same time, every balloon d’Or winner has been playing since Kaká in 2007.

Probably this is the result of two factors. Physical condition has never been so good. Footballers live healthier. Diets are more closely monitored and the understanding of nutrition and healing is better than ever. There was no less bad struggle; And this benefit means that even if it is balanced with the challenging nature of today’s emergency game, modern sports medical broken legs and cross -ruptures are no longer in the end of career injuries.

At the same time, there is a league Penumbra that now demands and pays star players outside the elite, while football is at a reasonable level, for example, it offers a less demanding environment than the Premier League. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo benefit from the salaries of the US and Saudi Arabia and the exposure of MLS and Saudi Pro League celebrities. It is far from the first two leagues offering a mutual late career salary day, but perhaps better than ever, more visible and more attractive.

This brings us to Serie A, but it ranked much higher than the MLS or the Saudi Pro League, while it fell from a long way from the 1980s and the 90s. A competition full of stars, but the stars are a few years beyond their summits. If every league probably wants to be financially dominant, there is no great harm to it – or at least not. As the economy of football became more and more layered, every league had to find the niche.

Sweden – Almost despite him, the clubs were not compulsory by their members because they would vote for the video assistant referees – were celebrated for their “originality with a vibrant ultra culture and a retro vibe. Germany is the home of pushing young coaches with iPads and new emergency models. There is Spain CláSico And France has PSG. Italy has to face the fact that it is no longer hegemonic.

There are no Italian clubs among the 10 richest. Although Juventus and Inter have lost in the two Champions League finals since then, in 2010, no Serie has won a side.

Serie A has become a league where the speed is slightly slower, veterans can be effective – and there is a attraction in it. Although not the rulers, although it is something relaxing from the perspective of the ordinary audience, many of the best players in Snooker are ten or two years ago, as Serie A, Romelu Lukaku from Stefan de Vrij to Ruben Loftus-Chek.

Inter, Milan, Juve and Naples still have a tape. Manchester City is easy to understand that Bruyne preferred to join Naples after deciding that they do not want to offer him a new agreement. Or why Modric went there instead of flogging around the United States. Everything should not be done at a wild pace. It doesn’t even have to be the best of everything.

Since Juventus has ended the rule of the years, at the Atalanta, which has not won a pleasant mixture of three champions and a healthy competition level and a large investment and or inspiration management, which has not won a pleasant mixture of large names and teams, including Naples and Lazio, which has gained only twice the league for this spell. In a world that is not obsessed with growth, the intrigue from week to week will be more than enough.

However, modern football is a world that is obsessed with growth thanks to the widespread participation of private capital companies, many of which are American. Eight Serie A Team belongs to the majority of US companies. A popular league blessed with experienced stars is not enough, so Milan’s home match against Como next season can be played in Perth, Australia.

Perhaps a constant driving for more than inspiring progress, but he usually feels that the beauty of what exists can be missed; And the possibility of playing modric for Milan, the possibility of producing another season of these transitions outside the right foot is worth celebrating.